Steve Shickles

Reuters - A suicide car bomber killed seven
policemen and wounded three in an attack on a patrol in
northern Iraq’s Salahuddin province on Sunday, police said.

AFP - Iraq said on Sunday it plans to file lawsuits against a group of companies and individuals in US courts over their alleged role in a United Nations oil-for-food scam under Saddam Hussein’s regime.

AFP - Civilian flights will start next month at a former military airport in the central Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf, the provincial government said on Sunday.

Reuters - Iraqi officials have expressed outrage
over a U.S. raid near the holy Shi’ite city of Kerbala, which
they said should have been approved by local authorities since
security for the area is under Iraqi control.

AP - Police say a truck bomb has killed seven people in Iraq.

AFP - A car bomb in the central Iraqi town of Dhuluiya on Sunday killed at least seven policemen and wounded two more, the town’s police chief told AFP.

AFP - US military operations in Iraq following the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein suffered from poor planning and lack of vision, according to an army report released Sunday.

AP - McCain, Obama court pivotal Hispanic voters in back-to-back speeches … McCain, Iraqi president appear together in solidarity, tout progress in warn-torn nation … Obama quietly visits wounded war veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, vows better care …

AP - As of Saturday, June 28, 2008, at least 4,113 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Reuters - A new Army history of the Iraq
conflict faults the invasion’s top U.S. commander for his
sudden decision to overhaul the Baghdad-based military command,
The New York Times said in its Sunday edition.